Newcrest Mining's Telfer operation in Western Australia's Pilbara region. Picture: file image. Source: Supplied
A MINE worker has died after an incident at the Telfer gold mine in WA's Pilbara this morning.
The Department of Mines and Petroleum has been notified of the man's death, which occurred at about 9.35am.
Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources Safety Executive Director Simon Ridge said the death happened near the mine's tailings storage facility, and has also been reported to police.
He said a department team arrived at the site this afternoon to begin its investigation into the incident.
Mr Ridge said the department extends its deepest sympathies are extended to the worker's family, friends and co-workers.
TWO out of three heart attack patients are being discharged from hospital without the drugs to treat their condition and one third don't get rehabilitation.
Australia is spending half as much as the rest of the world preventing heart disease, which is the nation's biggest killer, a worldwide review by the Economist Intelligence Unit has found.
As a result one in four people who have a heart attack will have another within 30 days at a cost to taxpayers of up to $12,000.
Better prevention could save the health system hundreds of millions of dollars a year, says Heart Foundation cardiovascular director Dr Rob Grenfell.
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It costs just $400 a year to give a heart attack survivor an exercise program and advice to help prevent a second attack.
And well designed prevention programs can slash rate of people having a second heart attack from 25 to just 6 per cent, Dr Grenfell says.
A global review of heart disease by EIU has found heart attacks are the world's leading killer and are responsible for 30 per cent of all deaths.
Funded by drug company Astra Zeneca, which makes heart disease medicines, the report says if countries don't focus more on prevention they "won't have the resources to take care of the sick people they will have".
Part of the problem is that people who have a heart attack fail to change their lifestyle to prevent the next event.
Only one in three cent of heart attack victims take up exercise, only four in ten eat a healthier diet and one in five continue to smoke.
Fewer than one in two people prescribed cholesterol lowering and blood pressure medications to reduce their risk of a heart attack take the medicine consistently.
Reviewing the success of heart attack prevention programs the analysis finds a fat tax favoured by many public health campaigners would need to be as high as 20 per cent on unhealthy food to affect obesity and heart disease.
And it warns Denmark's attempt to introduce a tax on all foods containing more than 2 per cent saturated fat was so unpopular it was abolished within a year.
Finland has been more successful working with its food industry to cut the amount of salt in its processed foods.
And bans on smoking in public places typically cut heart attacks by 13 per cent within a year.
Some international experts have been pushing for anti-cholesterol drugs to be prescribed to the entire population aged over 50 and claim this could cut heart disease by 80 per cent.
Others want children as young as eight years of age put on the drugs.
This would be costly, fail to address lifestyle issues needed to prevent heart attacks and could inflict medicine side effects on millions who might not be helped by the drugs, the review says.
One emerging option is to use smart phone and other technology to enable patients to measure their own blood pressure and take their own electrocardiograms to give them more of a role in their own healthcare.
New technology can also be used to monitor and encourage increases in exercise levels and measure progress.
The review says telehealth is "the biggest step forward in perpetuating healthy lifestyle habits
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